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Antony Blinken: “It is not the violence, because that's gone. It's two things: it's an absence of access to school and education for the…”

On the recordApril 11, 2016
It is not the violence, because that's gone. It's two things: it's an absence of access to school and education for the kids, and it's a lack of access to employment, to jobs, for the parents.
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Antony Blinken
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Blinken discusses the reasons for refugee migration beyond violence.

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